Jay Barlow

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Jay Barlow

Jay Barlow was introduced to life cycle assessment through a research project on the Athabasca oil sands. His current research interests are methane emissions, forest and soil carbon, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

He has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology from Whitman College and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University. He works as a carbon analyst in London.

Articles by Jay Barlow

Time Value of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis

The work in this paper seeks to address the shortcomings of current dynamic Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) by developing new methods to compare the monetized impact of greenhouse gas emissions in the future with monetized impacts of emissions in the present. The novelty of this work has two major components. First, the methods account for changing atmospheric carbon concentrations and nonlinear monetized impacts to society. Second, they include the dynamic monetized impacts of greenhouse gas emissions occurring in different years.